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Wildly, the Polish word "nagle" (pronounced differently) means "suddenly" or "all at once", which is just astonishingly apropos for what I'm almost certain is p

Wildly, the Polish word "nagle" (pronounced differently) means "suddenly" or "all at once", which is just astonishingly apropos for what I'm almost certain is pure coincidence.

sleepy_keita 9mo ago
Yeah, it's named after the person who wrote the RFC - John Nagle. Wild coincidence! https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc896 https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc896
- pests 9mo ago
  hes on hn as "Animats"
  - tptacek 9mo ago
    Funner trivia is why he's named "Animats".
    - teach 9mo ago
      I've been on HN a long time and this comment was the one to finally make me realize that "animats" is "stamina" spelled backward.
      - tptacek 9mo ago
        See, I didn't even realize that --- wasn't what I was referring to! :)
marton78 9mo ago
Strangely, the Polish word seems to encode a superposition of both settings: with NODELAY on, TCP sends messages suddenly, whereas with NODELAY off it sends tiny messages all at once, in one TCP packet.
Pikamander2 9mo ago
Nominative determinism strikes again! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominative_determinism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominative_determinism